To a young Lady reading the seventh Verse of the first Chapter of Proverbs

WHilst the Contents of this one Verse
So passionately you rehearse,
In it we comprehended find
The perfect Copy of your Mind.
You teach us, and inform us too,
What we should, and what you do.
This is your Noon, our early Dawn,
In miniature your Picture drawn.
Compendious History of your Life:
In Vertue your victorious strife:
Like wrestling Jacob, whilst you halt,
You make us blush at our Revolt.
Here in this Looking-glass we see
The Beauties of your Soul, what we
Like you, and for your sake desire to be.
We came, and heard, and were undone!
With earthly flames the Fire begun,
When heavenly too conspir'd to joyn
United Forces, humane and divine:
High Winds more dangerous than they;
In vain our Engines then we play:
When the chief Castle is burnt down,
'Tis more than time that we surrender up the Town.